The person receiving a link request must explain the change to their manager or to themselves. Your domain rating does not help them do that. What helps are example problems on specific examples of pages where your resource provides a solution.
We look at both pages before writing anything. In the absence of valid reason for the link, the writer tells you to spend your advertising dollar on places it will convert instead of using fabricated reasoning.
Ask for a favor and you lose. Point out a problem you can solve and you have a conversation. The emails that have success name a dead reference, a statistic from 2016, or a section that promises a resource and never links one. That kind of framing turns the request into an edit that the recipient already wanted to make.
Every SEO tool uses the same template to email editors introducing generic praise for their article and a suggestion for a quick edit. Editors are inundated with generic emails. Many have learned to filter on phrasing. It is rare enough for an email to cite the specific paragraph that the email is read as soon as it reaches the recipient’s inbox.
We require that you provide both the target URL and a page URL you want linked, which allows the writer to go to both pages and decide why it would be beneficial to include that particular link to that target URL. Skip this, and virtually all outreach programs do, and you end up wasting a lot more resources by sending a lot more emails.
The denominator here is brutal, so let’s test the angle rather than the wording. There is no lesson to be gained from testing this at scale. We’ve written two distinctly different framings, a correction angle and a contribution angle, and you test each against fifty similar sites to see which survives the test.
One rate, whatever the format: $10 per 100 words. You are paying for the writer’s time and judgement, so the price scales with the words rather than with a package tier.
| Typical link-building outreach | Words | Writing | Fee (1%) | You pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single template | 180 | $18 | $0.18 | $18.18 |
| Template plus two follow-ups | 400 | $40 | $0.40 | $40.40 |
| Angle set of five templates | 850 | $85 | $0.85 | $85.85 |
The writer receives 100% of the writing price. Our 1% fee is added on top of it, and 0.5% is donated to tree planting. Full pricing breakdown.
We match the brief to a writer who has already worked in that subject area. If you have worked with an Articled writer before and want them again, name them and we will check their availability first.
Up to 3 days. The writer has to read around the subject before writing it, so we quote honestly rather than promising an hour. If your deadline is tighter, say so in the brief and we will tell you before you pay whether we can meet it.
No. Anybody trying to guarantee a spot is either buying links or attempting to use unethical tactics. Where a resource is placed is determined by the site and the discretion of the editor and value of the resource. We have control of what we are sending and if the page we are referencing is not complete. We will let you know that.
Yes, and they land better than link requests on most sites. A guest pitch should identify a topic, include a brief outline, and include some reasoning as to why you’re the best fit. If you send over three suggestions, you’re more likely to get picked since the writer will choose the idea that the site hasn’t yet covered.
Completely. Copyright transfers to you on delivery, with no attribution requirement and no licence back to us. Nothing written for you is resold, repurposed or republished.
Reviews from completed, paid orders in this category.
I always struggled with creating the right sequence, but these seven emails move from helpful to salesy at a reasonable pace. The note on timing was a generic, boilerplate suggestion. I only bring it up because the rest of the emails were customized.
12 members responded to the first newsletter and actually had something to say about the framing workshop. Our newsletter had never received a response, so that’s the benchmark I’m using. The half a percent that goes to tree planting is a nice line for our members even though it wasn’t the purpose of our order.
Six hundred words with nothing in them that exists purely to reach six hundred words. Our newsletter has a hard scroll limit and every writer before this one padded the middle to hit the count. This one just stopped when it was done. J L
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